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University of the Pacific, McGeorge School of Law - Summer 2013

Alumni News
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1996
Kevin Adamson received the
Lawyer of the Year Award from
the State Bar of California’s Solo
and Small Firm Section for his
work on the Sacramento County
Bar Association’s Indigent
Defense Panel Committee. He
is a principal in the Law Office
of Kevin J. Adamson. | David
Kauffman was appointed as the
inspector general at the California
Military Department by Gov.
Jerry Brown. A lieutenant colonel,
he has served with the California
Army National Guard and U.S.
Army Reserve for nearly 20
years, including tours of duty in
Guantanamo Bay, Kosovo and
Afghanistan.
1997
Michael Babikian was
named president and CEO of
Transamerica Brokerage, a distribution
unit of Transamerica Life
Insurance’s Los Angeles-based
Life & Protection Division. He
previously held the position of
executive vice president and chief
marketing officer for the division.
| Devin Donahue was co-counsel
for a plaintiff who won a $3.5
million FINRA arbitration award
in a breach of promissory note,
wrongful termination case. He is
a partner in the Los Angeles firm
of Palmer, Lombardi & Donahue
LLP. | Jennifer Raphael Komsky
won a bench defense verdict in a
wrongful termination case in Los
in a battle over water district
rights. He is a partner at Young
Wooldridge LLP in Bakersfield.
1994
Eugene Ashley has been
appointed to the San Jose Silicon
Valley Chamber of Commerce
board of directors, where he will
serve on the executive committee
as legal counsel. A shareholder
with Hopkins & Carley in
San Jose, he focuses his practice
on complex intellectual property,
commercial disputes, construction
and insurance-related issues. |
Adam B. Eggers has been hired
as senior program administrator
at Forestdale, in Forest Hills,
New York. | Christian Green
won a 12-0 defense verdict in
San Francisco Superior Court
in a nine-day nursing home
negligent care trial. He is an
attorney with the Law Offices of
Samuel B. Grader in Sacramento.
| Cara O’Neill has opened the
Law Offices of Cara O’Neill in
Roseville. | Sandra Rowe has been
named chief legal counsel for the
Wisconsin Department of Health
Services. | Kelly Ryan has joined
Wilke Fleury in an of counsel
capacity. She will practice in the
Sacramento firm’s health care
group.
1995
Ingrid Evans was one of the 40
California attorneys selected
as the 2012 Women Leaders in
the Law by The Recorder legal
Cristina Shea, ’95
newspaper. The founding partner
of the Evans Law Firm in San
Francisco, she is a certified life
member of the Multi-Million
Dollar Advocates Forum. | Port
Parker has joined Radoslovich
Krogh in Sacramento as a partner.
A veteran malpractice and business
litigator, he was the first
equity partner of the legendary
malpractice attorney Ed Freidberg
in the firm of Freidberg & Parker
LC. | Cristina Shea has been
elected to partnership at Reed
Smith in San Francisco. She is a
member of the firm’s insurance
recovery group. She focuses her
practice on insurance coverage
litigation for the top-20 global law
firm, which represents many of
the world’s largest companies in
complex litigation and other highstakes
disputes.